“I worry about this issue greatly,” said Anthony Watts, founder of climate denying website “Watts Up With That,” in an interview with FoxNews.com. “My site gets a significant portion of its daily traffic from Google… It is a very slippery and dangerous slope because there’s no arguing with a machine.”

If this thing can be used to teach anatomy to medical students, just imagine the porn potential! You could have an orgy of women climb into bed with you without the fear of disease, pregnancy, rejection... Plus, when you're done, they're done, and nobody makes you sleep in the wet spot. Depending on how much this thing costs, it might even be cheaper in the long run.

"By measuring the spread, we found that the black hole in RGG 118 weighs just 50,000 times the mass of the Sun, the smallest supermassive black hole yet reported!”

The smallest black hole we have so far found is XTE J1650-500 at around 3.8 times the mass of the sun, so it's not about how small a black hole can be, but how small a supermassive black hole can be. According to Wikipedia, a SMBH is on the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of solar masses (M☉), but this is actually much smaller.

The real question I have is how big does a black hole have to get (in M☉) and what other factors need to be in place before it starts exhibiting the properties of a SMBH?

Did anyone else just hear a "Whoosh"? It's pretty much a time honored tradition for us Linux folk to knock on Windows. Try doing sudo apt-get install sense-of-humor, or if you're an Arch fan I recommend: # pacman -Rs cranial-rectosis.

Apparently all the magic is done in the membrane. The channels going in and out are easy enough to understand, the chemically treated paper isn't that hard either... But it's that proton exchange membrane (PEM) that makes the whole thing work, and I'd really like to know what goes into that.